A mother of two found to be 'gurning' and 16 times the drug-driving limit after she used her car to ram her sister's vehicle up and down the street has been spared jail. Natalie Warke, 41, repeatedly smashed her VW Golf into the empty car before pushing it across a road junction during a family row with her eldest son and her sister.
As Warke emerged from her car to argue with relatives in the street during the 10am spectacle, stunned neighbours called the police. When they arrived at the scene in Levenshulme, they found the mum slumped at the wheel of the Golf.
According to court documents, tests showed she had 800mg of Benzoylecgonine (BZE), the main metabolite of cocaine, in her blood. The limit is 50mg. She also had traces of cocaine itself in her system.
